SquareBurger, which will open for the season April 1, has two popular Tastykake-infused desserts on their menu.(Photo by R. Kennedy for GPTMC)

Philadelphia’s love for Tastykake is no secret; the support for the company that has surfaced lately since it made headlines last month has been impressive.

According to the Inquirer, even acclaimed haute cuisine restaurateur Marc Vetri is “a Tastykake lover who spent $1,000 shipping Tastykakes to his brother’s 40th-birthday party in Los Angeles.”

Philadelphians’ fierce hometown pride for these baked confections, plus the fact that they just taste really good, has resulted in chefs around town flexing their creative culinary muscle in order to incorporate Tastykakes into dishes both savory and sweet. In fact, deconstructed Tastykakes of all sorts have been popping up across the city for the past few years. But of late, the inventiveness has been dialed up a notch.

Here are our top picks for Tastykake-inspired dishes on menus throughout Philadelphia:

• Midatlantic Restaurant and Taproom: To make the Philly-Style Butterscotch Bread Pudding, Chef Daniel Stern removes the icing from Butterscotch Krimpets, melts it down into a glaze and bakes it with the cake as the “bread.” The dessert is topped with butterscotch sauce, and served with a vanilla bean and scotch syrup on the side.

• 10 Arts at the Ritz-Carlton: Pastry chef Monica Glass’ epic malted Tastykake ice cream served over her dark chocolate, caramel and peanut tart is no longer on the standard dessert menu, but she hasn’t ruled out rolling out a similar dish in the future. How could she, when even this gluten-free gal has a favorite Tastykake? (Peanut Butter Kandykakes.)